Top Living Geniuses 35 items ranked
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1.
Garry Kasparov - Russian Chess Player
The world's best chess player, there is really no one that can beat him at his game. Considered a genius for his ability to think on an analytical level and strategize lands him in a top spot.
92 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Stephen Hawkings - Scientist
91 points - added 2 years ago by guest -
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Albert Hoffman, Swiss Chemist
Beyond intelligent, Hoffman has left many awe struck with this talents and ability in the chemistry field
68 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology. In particular, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture. As a consequence, this solved in the affirmative the Poincaré conjecture, posed in 1904, which before its solution was viewed as one of the most important and difficult open problems in topology.
53 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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Paul McCartney - British Musician
50 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Li Hongzhi - Chinese Spiritual Leader
40 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Mikhail Kalashnikov - Russian Small Arms Designer
17 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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Damian Hirst - British Artist
Gifted in the world of art, Hirst has proven himself as having the ability to leave his comfort zone and create some masterpieces.
17 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
9.
Matt Groening - Satirist & Animator
After many accomplishments this man will go down in history for the creation of the Simpsons.
16 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
10.
Seamus Heaney - Irish Poet
15 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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siddiq afghan
a science teacher in afghanistan
14 points - added 2 years ago by guest -
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Philip Glass - American Composer
Musically gifted, Glass is considered a musical genius by his peers and those that surround him.
14 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Steven Spielberg - American Film maker
13 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Daniel Barenboim - Musician
13 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
15.
Larry Page & Sergey Brin - American Publishers
13 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Bob Dylan
american musician
12 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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Henrik Gorecki - Polish Composer
12 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
18.
Mahasweta Devi
Great novelist and short story writer.
11 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
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Annette Baier - New Zealander Philosopher
11 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Stephen King - American Writer
10 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Sebastian Thrun - German Probabilistic roboticist
10 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
22.
Tuan Vo-Dinh - Vietnamese Bio-Medical Scientist
9 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
23.
Chuck Berry
creator of rock n roll music
7 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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Jon de Mol - Dutch Television producer
6 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
25.
Enrique Ostrea - Philippino Pediatrics & neonatology
6 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
26.
Hans Zimmer - Composer, producer, musician
Has produced an extraordinary body of work over the decades, most famously
writing music for dozens of Hollywood movies.
5 points - added 1 year ago by guest -
27.
David Bowie - British Musician and Actor
3 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
28.
Woody Allen - American Film Director, Actor, Screenwriter
2 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
29.
Ali Javan -Iranian Engineer
2 points - added 2 years ago by arollison -
30.
Christopher Hitchens - Polemicist and Author
One of the GREAT writers and thinkers of the past 20 years on both sides of the Atlantic.
1 point - added 1 year ago by guest -
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Bobby Fischer - American Chess Player
1 point - added 2 years ago by arollison -
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Quentin Tarantino - American Film Director, Actor
0 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
33.
Gerard Depardieu - French Actor
0 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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Ravi Shankar - Indian Composer, Musician
0 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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Stevie Wonder - American Musician
0 points - added 6 months ago by guest -
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